Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-13
TIE TERRIBLE WRECK.
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for help were heartrending. Wounded !
mothers ran wildly about crying for their
lost children, and wives for their hus-
bands. Strong men were weeping over
the forms of their beloved wives. Pray
ers, entreaties and grOaGs filed the sir
until daylight, when relief party got to
work and removed the dead and wounded
from the scene. The scene in the cars
was beyond description. One young
child was found fastened near the roof Of
the car, head down, where in the Ter and
il had been thrown, and was
dead when taken doIn. Others were
found in all conceivable shapes, ell
thrown out Of their seats and piled in one
end OF the Gisles Of the cars, bleeding
from gashes on the face, arms CT other
portions Ct the body.
CORONER 8 INVESTIGATION CONTINUED.
CHATswORTH, I'LL, Aug. l2-At the
morning session Of the coroner's Jury
some decidedly significant testimony was
given. Timothy Coughlin, section fore
man here, testified that he had four men
helping him on his six and Cne-hslf miles.
He received orders on Wednesday to 90
over his section and see that the bridges
and track were ell right. Coughlin went
the grass along the track for half g mile
and put the fire out. He examined the
bridge about o'clock and found no
smoke about it and otherwise it was all
right. About three weeks ago the grass
under the bridge had been cut away for
ten feet from the bridge timbers and he
had no idea how the bridge caught fire.
Christopher Ennis, the r0admaster for
~, d, 49,
he went over the road from Fairbury
to Gilmore. He went over the fatal
bridge Just before O'Clock in the after
noon. He was on the rear of the
car, and saw that the bridge
was all right. There WAS no
ire or smoke about the bridge. Ennis
said: "MY opinion is that the bridge was
set or fire by somebody. My train was
the last over before the special and II
there was fire there the men would have
discovered If. The bridge could have
been burned in two or three hours. About
three years ago two attempts were made
to ditch the 10 O'Clock passenger at that
bridge, and we kept q Watchman there for
six weeks. DISTINCTIONS were piled on
the track. 1t is very lonesome place,
far from any house"
RAILWAY OFFICIALS BLAMED.
CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. IA special
from Chatsworth says: There were very
little stimulants or in fact medical ap-
pliances or assistance OF any kind on the
ground. A man from Piper City, whose
name could not be learned, brought g
demij ohm Of whiskey, but the railroad
people seem TO have done practically
nothing. Men from Chatsworth, who
worked all night at the wreck, were re
fused c passage on the train going back
to the village, and had to tramp home in
q half tainting condition. 1t seemed to
take the railroad company four hours TO
get an engine ready to drag car to or
from village, and the only persons allow
ed to ride were the railroad officials.
The people here are very
bitter against the railway company
and they soy the officials, whether from
decentralization or excitement, or from
absolute pigheadedness, scted most in
humanity in many cases and treated the
wounded shamefullY all around. In fact
! they did not treat the wounded at all, but
! left them to the care of volunteers. There
was nothing to hinder the officials from
running train back and forth eastward
to Gilman and west 10 Chatsworth all
| through the night carrying away the
wounded and bringing back supplies, but
nothing of the kind was done. The whole
| thing was Just piece of stupidity that
allowed prairie fires to rage all along
its line and took no precautions to see
| that the bridges were not burned down
| 1t is probable an investigation will result
in holding some of the officials criminaIly
responsible for the disaster.
VISIT TO THE HOSPITALS.
FOREST, ILL Aug. 11.-As fast as the
wounded were brought into Chatsworth
from the wreck they were taken directly
| to the town hall, which has been turned
into q temporary hospital. Beds snd
cots were brought in from the neighbor
! ing houses, together with necessary bed
ding, and the sufferers were cared for BY
! loving hands. Torn and bleeding human
beings in Ill the different stages of suf-
feIing lay round the rooms moaning anC
crying with agony and pain, while the
doctors and nurses were binding up the
wounds. Bloody clothing, torn anC
covered with mud, lay around on the
floors in heaps, together with car cush-
ions, mattre sses and blankets on which
they had been brought from the scene o.
the wreck Many patients were under
the influence of ether or chloroform
White faces with teeth cIenched showed
the suffering they were undergoing Will,
partly ObliviOus TO their fate. Blood was
everywhere on the floor, walls, clothing
and hands OF the wounded, as we'll as O
those who were caring for them. AS tht
dsy wore sway and afternoon shadow:
heightened into evening the scenes
changed somewhat. The wounded hat
been dressed and bsndaged, and most O.
them rested quietly enough, overcome By
mental and bodily suffering, resting OF
comfortable beds, watched by tender
hearted men and women, the majority o.
whom had never seen tie patients unit
yesterday They slept, oblivious to tn,
slaughter which had taken place. Lamps
were placed around the halls, their ligh
carefully shaded, and the scene was sug
gestive Of the interior of q hospital on
FIELD OF BATTLE.
In one corner of the lower hall Law JohI
G. Steene, president of the Jersey Cen
tIal, large and powerful man. Both o
his legs were broken and he had received
such internsl injuries as rendered his re
covery doubtful.
Adam Schoeberger of Peoria Law nes
MIN semi-conscious ana slowly bresthip.
his life away. One OF lis legs WAS broker
and he was fatally injured internally.
On the upper floor handsome womsl
about twenty wears of age stylishl